"Shopping at Sainsbury's" booklet, 1978

Guide to Sainsbury's operations, apparently a revised and updated version of SA/CO/8/4/3.

Includes: article about retailing from buying, testing and distribution to labelling (with sell-by dates and prices) with photographic illustrations of dairy, butter, margarine, cheese, desserts, bacon, sausages, hot drinks, freezer centre, hardware, kitchenware and health and beauty products. Also mentions greetings cards and stationery, and Sainsbury's own label family clothes. Includes article 'What Price Quality?' about laboratories and home economics at Blackfriars (head office), and article 'The Future' which focuses on petrol stations, out-of-town stores and supermarket expansion. The back page includes a map with location of Sainsbury's stores.

Locations and branches mentioned include: Haverhill Meat Products; Hoddesdon depot; Basingstoke depot; Sainsbury-Spiller egg-packing in Norfolk; Lords Hill, Southampton; SavaCentre Limited stores at Washington New Town, Hempstead, Basildon and Oldbury.